Second period class description

First class – Wednesday, September 9^th, 2015

This is my second practice in English Access, but my first time with advanced students in this modality. I had many expectations about this group of students, and I was right they were awesome because they loved English. I started my first class by writing the agenda, objective and date; then, I developed a warm-up where students had to go out of the classroom and look for some verbs around the building the winner was the person who got more verbs. I gave them a reading where students had to read, and underline this structure “will + have + v3”, then they answered three questions about the reading; I performed the grammar explanation about “future perfect” and wrote the structure and some examples on the board; in addition, I made the line time and explained to them when the future perfect occurred using the line time. As activities, I developed a fill in the blanks where students did it very fast, and I check the answers with the whole class; moreover, as a wrap-up, students wrote and expressed what will they have done before 2020?

I think that in the grammar explanation is very important to bring many examples about the new grammar structure that they are learning; moreover, as teachers, we have to be innovators; for example, I could realize that they really enjoy when I pasted the red cord as a line time on the board. I think that this strategy helped them to understand the topic faster          than only write or say something.

Based on what I already know about teaching, monitor every activity that we as teachers developed was really important in order to encourage them to ask any doubt that they could have. About the seating arrangement, students were seating in the traditional way because the classroom was too short, and they were 26 students.

For my future classes, I will try to develop only kinaesthetic warm-ups, for students enjoy working in this kind of activities: furthermore, I will use more colourful pictures and visual aids.